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This is the Display Your Sonor Drums Thread
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5 years agoThis is the Display Your Sonor Drums Thread
Here's a 1950's "transition" kit I made from 50's shells and early sixties hardware. The veneer I applied myself (quite a PITA due to it being raw an...
5 years agoSlingerland-to buy or not to buy
These have black and brass badges which places them somewhere before 1970. These are re-wraps. The WMP is too white (Slingerland's WMP had more blue...
5 years agoVintage Ludwig 3-ply, 12x18 Bop!
They seem to come up rarely as there weren't that many made. Keep in mind that few wanted diminutive kits back in the "over-sized" seventies. The J...
5 years agoYamaha Price Check
Relatively-speaking, the asking price ($850 USD) is a bit high considering that one could find a decent 60's Slingerland for that price or less, as we...
9 years agoLate 50's Sonor
Here's what I did with two bare fifties Sonor tom shells, and an early 60's Sonor bass drum shell:
9 years agoAs if we needed any further proof that Guitar Center is run by idiots...........
FWIW since the kit was used they didn't have the original boxes so they used whatever they had laying around. Give them credit for recycling old boxe...
9 years agoSlingeralnd
The snare is likely a Sound King with a non-Slingerland strainer.
9 years agoSlingeralnd
The $800 guesstimate is about right. That kit is a late sixties model (the definitive way to determine such - apart from a comprehensive serial numbe...
9 years agoNAMM - Sonor Vintage Series
The one thing that they cannot recreate (well, they could if they really wanted to, but it would be very expensive) are the teardrop era hoops, which...
9 years agoHere's Some Pics of Baxter Drums...
Cool set. One can see the Tama foreshadowing in the shot of the bass drum interior. Imagine that with grey trunk paint and you got yourself a Tama...
9 years agoSlingerland vintage 1964 sparkle kit offer! -> need help
Also, looks as if one (or perhaps all) of the T-bolts on the floor tom leg brackets have been replaced with hardware store items. The color was silve...
9 years agoSlingerland Gene Krupa Deluxe ?
Like others have said, the price is way over what current market value, which I'd place at around $800. Among vintage US-made vintage drums, Slingerl...
9 years agoEbay wrap pros and cons
I once got a sample of the stuff that is "credit card thick" and it seemed to me to be cheap upholstery - like the sort that one might see on bar stoo...
9 years agoVintage Ludwig deal - Need help!
Congratulations on your acquisition. A few things concerning the shell interiors and/or the overall structural condition of the drums that I think...
9 years ago